Preeti wears In Good Company dress; earrings, stylist's own. Sellam wears Zara cardigan; earrings, stylist's own.
LIFE Feature
When she was 10, Preeti Nair came home from primary school one day and found her mother covering up the unit number on their HDB flat with white paint. “I remember asking why she needed to do that and her telling me not to worry about it,” she reminisces.
Preeti and her family would end up moving house nine times over the course of her childhood. What she didn't know then was the reason behind their relocations—the looming threat of loan sharks chasing up on gambling debts owed by her father.
“I had saved up some money from my job as a preschool teacher and stored it in a bank account for my kids to use when they were older, so they would have something to fall back on,” says Sellam Nair, Preeti's mother. “It's when we found that all the